The main focus of this project was to take advantage of mobile technology to make sharing messages and connections even easier for GabrielsVault users. At a high level, the project scope included the ability to create messages, add attachments, set delivery dates, add assets from vault storage as well as access a recipients list and add to it from within the app. A user would be able view their messages list including scheduled, upcoming and historical data as well as sending the same message to multiple recipients straight from their phone. Cloud also enabled push notifications, and support for SMS messaging.

The Experience Design team created high-fidelity compositions for the various views required to build the app, adjusting as needed and collaborating with the client to be sure all requirements were included. It was important the Cloud team apply the GabrielsVault brand vision and deliver a seamless application that reflected the already designed website. The Development team worked with the Experience Design team in order to build out the approved compositions and used the Iconic Framework to build both the iOS and Android applications with the same code base. The Engineering team worked with the Development team to initiate API changes to support the application requirements. They utilized Azure Media services to process audio and video messages as well as Azure DevOps Pipelines to create app packages. Azure Functions was used to queue messages for integration with SendGrid and Twilio. Entity Framework core was utilized for data access and ASP.NET Core for the web tier.